Published in 1947, the Plague(titled La Peste in French) is the most important work of existentialist author Albert Camus. It chronicles the north-african city of Oran during the outbreak of a plague there, and vividly depicts the tough resistance against suffering and death. The Plague is considered by many to be the main reason that Albert Camus received the Nobel Prize of Literature in 1957.
A famous quote from the book is "One fine morning in the month of May an elegant young horsewoman might have been seen riding a handsome sorrel mare along the flowery avenues of the Bois de Boulogne."